The process of creating, filming and editing the animatic storyboard was a longwinded process however when finally completed I felt a sigh of relief.
I think I took around two weeks overall to complete creating the storyboard.
Firstly we had to sketch a number of images onto post-it notes these images would represent each individual shot of our music video, each post-it note would be about 2 -4 seconds long so we knew the exact timings of the shots. Overall i created 62 post-it notes with my longest shot being 6 seconds and my shortest being 2 seconds.
My sketches were not brilliantly drawn they are mainly just stick men however I tried my best to get the story across and hopefully other people will understand it and that it makes sense because I did feel when jotting all my ideas down and then drawing them in the order that I wanted, it could be misunderstood but as long as I know what order all my shots and everything goes in I hopefully will not be confused.
Filming the storyboard
To film the storyboard it took me about 15 minutes to fully complete filming it.
To film the storyboard we used a camera and placed it on a tripod so it was in a steady position, we then filmed each individual posit note for a few seconds the process of this didnt take that long however It was repettative and I did get slightly bored and at some points frustrated with it. Because I wasnt used to doing this I would accidently film the posit notes not in the order that they should have been filmed e.g. I would film the 4-8 seconds posit note before the 1-4 second posit note, this would put me slightly behind everyone else because I would then have to stop the camera rewind and film the posit note I missed out!
However when the filming was finally finished we had to upload it onto the Premier Pro application which took about 5 minutes to do so.
Editing the storyboard
Overall the process of editing took me two lessons to fully complete.
Firstly as said before the video took around 5 minutes to uplaod onto Premier Pro then all we had to do was to cut any bits out we didnt need so it would match up perfectly with the timings we wrote on out posit note pictures. For example I wrote on the top of each of my posit notes 1- 4 seconds then on the second posit note 4-8 seconds (examples), so from this I would then have to cut the excess filming of the storyboard down to fit these timings so each posit note would flow accurately onto one another.
I actually found this editing qite fun and not as tedius as editing the Bad Touch muisc video that we created back in the summer, I think this is beacuse I know at the end of this whole entire process Il have created my own music video and knowing that the storyboard plays a big part in this I suppose gave more more confidence and drive to get it finished in a short time which I enjoyed.
VIDEO OF MY ANIMATIC STORYBOARD
